I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

Dream and you shall become.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I always entertain great hopes.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.